Facing inequalities and democratic challenges through co-production in cities

如果不平等与对欧洲民主政治机构的信任程度下降之间的联系已经得到证明，那么公民和机构试图面对这些不平等并（重新）建立可持续共同未来的各种方式仍然没有得到充分记录。事实上，当人们考虑到那些超越国家主导的传统参与形式的尝试时，这一空白变得更加明显。针对这一差距，Fairville的目标是记录和提出城市干预的试点模式，通过深化居民和用户参与新的和现有的民主进程，使当地学者、政府、社区组织、居民和用户参与集体改善贫困的城市街区。城市政策不应“为”人口制定，而应”与“人口一起制定，这一理念是社会转型和赋权的潜在深层动力。然而，这种合作生产过程的实现往往以认识上的不平等和不平等的权力关系为标志。认识到这一问题，费尔维尔试点案例都强调探索学术研究人员、地方社区和地方当局代表如何共同努力，减少他们之间存在的权力和信息不对称。这些试点项目围绕三大主题-环境不平等、与住房和城市规划有关的不平等以及与气候风险有关的不平等-开展，范围从共同诊断到共同规划和干预，将作为行动研究开展，并包括实施观测，资本化和共同-这些试点案例的结果将广泛传播给有关机构和公民，我们将共同努力鼓励政策转让和推广。

If the link between inequalities and declining levels of trust in the political institutions of democracy in Europe has already been shown,the various ways in which both citizens and institutions are trying to face these inequalities and (re)build a sustainable common futureremain somewhat under-documented. Indeed, this lacuna becomes even more pronounced when one considers those attempts that gobeyond conventional forms of state-led participation. Responding to this gap, the aim of Fairville is to both document and proposepilot models of urban intervention that engage local academics, -authorities, -community-based organisations, -residents and -users inthe collective improvement of deprived urban neighbourhoods via a deepening of resident and user participation in new and existingdemocratic processes. The idea that urban policies should not be made "for" populations but rather “with" them is a potentially profoundengine ofsocial transformation and empowerment. However, the realisation ofsuch co-production processesis often marked by epistemicinequalities and unequal power relations. Cognisant of this issue, the Fairville pilot cases all place an emphasis on exploring the ways inwhich academic researchers, local communities and local authority representatives can work together to reduce the power and informationasymmetries that exist between them. Clustered around three major themes - environmental inequalities, inequalities related to housingand urban planning and inequalities related to climate risks – and ranging from co-diagnosis to co-planning and intervention, the pilotswill be carried out as action research and include the implementation of observation, capitalisation and co-evaluation mechanisms.The results of these pilot cases will be widely disseminated to the institutions and citizens concerned and we will work collectively toencourage policy transfer and outreach.